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Woodridge United Methodist
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Join
us on Sunday for worship services
at
10:00 am.
Instructions
can be found at the end below.
All are
Welcome!
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“Your Heart
Condition”
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This Sunday our
guest preacher is the Reverend Darneather
Murph-Heath. She is the retired district
superintendent of the former Elgin District. She
previously served the Our Saviors United Methodist Church
in Schaumburg where Reid, Stacey and Jaidyn Spears were
members before coming to WUMC. Prior to that she
has served the Crystal Lake, Gorham and Norwood Park
Churches. She is a gifted and enthusiastic preacher
who loves God and not ashamed to say so.
Please join us and see what Rev. Darneather has to say
about this week's message on "Your
Heart Condition".
Join us in person at 10:00 a.m. and if you
can't join us in person, join us on our Woodridge UMC
YouTube Channel.
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Sunday, June 9th
- 10:00 am Worship Service
- 4:00
pm Filipino Baptist
Monday, June 10th
Tuesday, June 11th
- 9:30
am Soccer Shots
- 6:30
pm Soccer Shots Seasonal
Wednesday, June 12th
Thursday, June 13th
- Church
Office CLOSED
- 7:00
pm Boy Scouts
- 7:30
pm Toastmasters
Friday, June 14th
Sunday, June 16th
- 10:00 am Worship Service
- 4:00
pm Filipino Baptist
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SPECIAL Church Summer Office Hours
Monday - Wednesda: 9:00
am - 3:00 pmCLOSED
Thursday
- Friday: CLOSED
We ask that you call
before visiting.
Summer Hours are in effect Memorial Day to Labor Day.
The
church office will be CLOSED on Thursday & Friday this week.
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Ministry Opportunities
THANK YOU!
Thank you to everyone who made Pastor Danita’s celebration on
Sunday, June 2 a big success! From set-up to clean-up,
bringing food to decorating, welcoming guests to caring for
little ones, and everything in between, thank you for your
time, planning, and hard work! What a wonderful church
family! Each and every one of you is appreciated!
First
Friday Lunch
FFL will be dining in our beautiful kitchen TODAY, Friday,
May 3rd at 12:00. Bring a sack lunch and be
ready for a delightful time making new connections. No
reservations needed. Everyone is welcome!
60th
Anniversary Celebration
Join us in commemorating this 60th year of our church and
continuing our mission by purchasing a canvas tote bag ($25),
reusable grocery bags ($5) and/or stickers that allow you to
use an app to get credit for every time you refill your
grocery bag or water bottle and support important initiatives
for clean water through the Fill It Forward organization https://fillitforward.com.
Everything is on sale now in the narthex (or stop by the
church office). Follow the link to see Fill It Forward’s
partnerships https://fillitforward.com/giving/
and the clean water causes that are helped by your scans.
Fill
the Truck Mission Challenge Collection Drive
at the 185th Northern Illinois Annual
Conference
The NIC Board of Global Ministries is coordinating with
Midwest Mission to organize its annual conference collection
drive for Midwest Mission’s Most Needed Items. Woodridge UMC
is collecting items for personal dignity kits through June 16th.
There will be a place in the narthex to drop
off your donations.
Personal
Dignity Kits
Hand towels (no kitchen towels)
Washcloths (no dishcloths)
Toothbrushes (no multipack)
Bars of Soap, 3-4 oz.
Shampoo Bottles, 12-19 oz.
Deodorant, 2-3 oz. (stick, roll on, or pump)
Lotion Bottles, 8-10 oz.
Find
out more at umcnic.org/2024MissionChallenge
Donate
to Gift Gasket for the Yim Family
We will welcome Pastor Dave Yim and his family for his first
worship service at Woodridge UMC on Sunday, July 7th. The Yim
Family will move into the parsonage on June 25th. Please help
welcome the Yims by donating items for a gift basket. This
can be anything you would like to share to help Pastor Dave
and his family feel welcome and get to know Woodridge such as
store gift cards, restaurant gift cards, pool passes, treats,
candy, or games. You may leave your donation in the basket in
the Narthex marked for the Yim family or give it to Patti
Cash by
Sunday, June 23rd. If you have any questions,
please contact Patti at 630-258-0533 or patti@patticashmarketing.com.
A
Doin' Good BBQ
Together with other neighboring Mayors, Woodridge Neighbors
Helping Neighbors Disaster Recovery has created a tornado
disaster Friendraiser to be held on Wednesday, June
26th, to benefit our neighbors at Woodridge
County Club #5 condos that still have not been able to return
to their homes after the 2021 Father’s Day tornado. Please
join us for a BBQ with entertainment, an auction and more at
Seven Bridges Golf Club. Tickets are $75 per
person. See the e-News, go to WoodridgeNHN.org for
tickets. Call Stephanie Tarczon 630.853.8558 for more
information.
Sign
Up for a Meet and Greet with Pastor Dave Yim
Pastor Dave Yim would like to get know everyone at Woodridge.
Sign up for a “Meet and Greet” session for a casual time of
conversation and listening to one another. Please sign up in
the Narthex on Sundays or contact Patti Cash at patti@patticashmarketing.com
to pick a time you would like to attend. The sessions will
last approximately an hour and will take place at church.
Saturday
July 13 at 9AM
Tuesday,
July 16 at 7PM
Wednesday,
July 24 at 7PM
Monday,
July 29 at 12PM
Saturday,
August 10 at 9AM
Celebration
for the District Superintendent Jeffry Bross
On Sunday,
June 9 from 2-4 pm, at Grace UMC Naperville, 300 E. Gartner
Road, the District Supt. Committee
invites you to join us in celebrating and thanking our
outgoing District Superintendent, Rev. Jeffry Bross. We
know that you have been blessed and supported by his ministry
among us!
Please
take the time to go to https://share.vidday.com/e/t-7r6ewy
and follow the instructions to leave a brief video greeting
for Jeffry. If you can’t do it right
now, the app allows you to leave an RSVP and it will send you
a reminder next week to get it done.
We hope you’re planning to join us at Grace. We’ll
begin in the sanctuary with a time of worship with Rev. Lisa
Kruse Safford, music with Rev. David Price and Leonard Jones,
and then a reception with appetizers and desserts! See
you then!
Bible
Study Classes
Once Pastor Dave has arrived and gotten
settled (after July 1st), he will determine the continuation
of the classes, their meeting days and times in consultation
with those currently participating. Please be patient as he
learns his way around WUMC.
Sunday School
Activity Bags are available in the Narthex.
We use inspiring stories, creative crafts, and fun games—all
done with guidance of loving, dedicated teachers—to engage
our students.
Here’s our process: Children begin the worship
service in the sanctuary with their family. Following the
“Praying” segment, the children will be invited up to the
chancel steps for conversation with the pastors. (We call
that time “Conversing with Children.”) Following that, the
Sunday School teacher will meet the children in the Narthex
(the big room outside the sanctuary) and walk them to their
classroom. They will be in either the Trinity Room in the
main hallway or the Blue Room in the Preschool wing.
Toastmasters
Would you like to speak with more confidence in any setting?
Toastmasters can help! The Woodridge Toastmasters club meets
on the 2nd
and 4th Thursday of the month at Woodridge United Methodist
Church. Come visit us and see for yourself!
For more information contact John.
Northern
Illinois Conference
Annual Conference - I Freely and Heartily
Yield
The 185th Northern Illinois Annual Conference is Sunday, June 16th
through Tuesday, June 18th at the
Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center. Registration
is $130 and due by May 29th. There is no
on-site registration. See the link here
to register and for more information
Bishop
Scwerin's Reflections on General Conference 2024
Posted: May
16 2024 at 03:17 PM
Author: Bishop
Dan Schwerin
BE HAPPY
IN HOPE
(ROMANS 12:12)
Grace and peace to you, Children of a Loving
God,
I write to touch base after doing some
listening to how news of The United Methodist General
Conference is being received in Northern Illinois. To do
that, I need to start with a story.
I was sitting in the barbershop, waiting for
my turn to get a haircut (a task still necessary in my life
that may surprise many of you). This was my General
Conference haircut. While I waited, I heard someone who was
reading something say, "So what is Palm Sunday and
Easter, anyway?"
The question came to me from the side, someone
asking but almost daring anyone to answer. I launched into a
synopsis of dozens of Palm Sunday sermons in my head. I
explained Easter in 50 words or less. On my way home I
unpacked the meaning of the question: our context is full of
people who live by the scripts of success or fear-mongering,
or just being ungrounded in the joy we have. I cannot imagine
my life without the script of gospel hope.
The scripts are flipping in The United
Methodist Church. We have been living with scripts for battle
and not scripts for Jubilee, scripts for harm and not scripts
for grace. Romans 12:12, in the Common English Bible, says it
this way: "Be happy in your hope." We are made to
live from hope.
United Methodists have an expansive view of
grace. Grace is God's unmerited, unqualified love and regard
for our good. John Wesley insisted that grace was free for
all and needed by all. We are here to grow in grace. Ministry
is living by grace in our daily lives, and ministry is from
anyone to anyone. Our hope is in God's freedom and in
God's capacity to offer grace that makes new. Some decisions
at the General Conference helped us reflect what we say we
believe.
Click here to see
more.
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Dec. 13, 2023
Dear Servants in ministry,
Greetings in this holy time of anticipation and promise.
At this time of year, we celebrate the coming of a child.
Christmas, Epiphany, the boy Jesus in the temple—all center
on a child.
Indeed, children should always
be in our hearts and minds. And now, people
who were abused as children need our Christian compassion
and generosity.
Repair the Harm to Children,
the Northern Illinois Conference campaign to address the
needs of people who suffered abuse in a Boy Scout troop as
children, needs our support.
Many churches, including United Methodists, have chartered
Boy Scouts of America troops or packs over the years. As
part of the settlement of a lawsuit brought by these
survivors, the United Methodist Church has agreed to
contribute $30 million to a survivors’ fund over a
three-year period. Northern Illinois Conference’s share is
$754,348.
Your church can be part of the
healing for these survivors by committing an amount equal
to 1 percent of its budget to this fund.
This amount is payable over three years. Your church will
still have 99 percent for local and church-wide ministries.
We don't invite people to pledge because they participated
in the harm. We invite you to give because you care about
the welfare of children and want to help those who were
hurt as children to experience healing.
The Repair the Harm to Children
campaign is not only about financial compensation for the
survivors. We also commit to listening to
survivors, if they request it, with compassion. We will
also redouble our efforts to keep our churches safe for
children and vulnerable adults.
Our conference has received, as of this date, donations and
pledges from 28 churches and several individuals. We have
received commitments for $136,770, 18 percent of our goal.
So far, pledging churches have contributed $54,036.69. We look ahead with confidence that we Northern
Illinois United Methodists will achieve our goal.
Steps Toward Participation
- Your church identifies the amount
of its pledge.
- Visit umcnic.org/RepairtheHarm
and complete the Pledge Form linked from that page.
- When your church is ready to
begin fulfilling its pledge, visit the Make a Payment
link on that page. Remember, your church can fulfill
its pledge over three years.
This site also contains many resources
to help interpret the importance of this commitment. People
in your church who have participated in Scouts as young
people or leaders and those who care deeply about
children’s wellbeing can serve as ambassadors for this
opportunity to help others.
Please remember that Boy
Scouts, Girl Scouts, and other youth organizations support
children’s faith formation and are worth hosting in our
churches. The BSA commits itself to
strengthened protections for participants. Adding your
church’s vigilant observations of Safe Sanctuaries
practices, Scout troops and packs can be a safe and
enriching experience.
Knowing about NIC churches’ and individuals’ generosity, I
look forward to our receiving your pledges and gifts.
It is good to be in ministry with you.
Peace
Dan Schwerin, Bishop
Northern Illinois Conference
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If you would like more information, you can
visit the FAQ page here.
Prairie
Central Informal Gatherings with the District Superintendent
Informational
gatherings will be held on the second Thursday of the
month.
Zoom Links (The links will stay the same for all meetings,
though clergy links and lay links will be different)
Clergy Gathering 9:00 am link.
Lay Gathering 7:00 pm link.
Lay persons: This is NOT for Lay Leaders only. It
is intended for all lay persons who want to know more about
what is going on and be connected.
Northern
Illinois Conference
Find out
about upcoming events in the Northern Illinois
Conference of the United Methodist Church by clicking
this link
Outreach
Opportunities
June Outreach Offering
Reconciling Ministries Network
Reconciling Ministries Network works to
advance justice and inclusion for all LGBTQ+ people in The
United Methodist Church and beyond.
Since 1984, RMN has worked to transform hearts, churches, and
communities. We do that through grassroots organizing,
resourcing and educating, denomination-level change-making,
pastoral care, and working with you: faithful people hopeful
for a reconciled Church.
Ways to donate to the June Outreach Offering:
- Check or cash in an Outreach
Offering envelope placed in the offering plate in the
- Narthex (the room outside the
sanctuary) or in the gold-plated mail slot at the
church’s east door.
- Online via our website. Select
“Current Month Outreach” in the drop down menu.
- Text the amount you want to give to
630-449-7121 and select “Current Month Outreach” in the
drop down menu.
Ongoing
Opportunities
"Goin' Green" Shoes & Clothes
Recycling Box
Located in the northeast corner of our parking lot,
this receptacle is a convenient place to recycle any shoes
and your clothes that are at or near the end of their
usefulness. Did you know discarded clothes account for
more total landfill space than any other waste item? The
“Goin’ Green” Box helps us reduce our waste.
West Suburban Food Pantry
There is a shopping cart that is waiting
for donations. It sits in the narthex, usually near the
sanctuary doors. The food pantry serves many
households and always welcomes
donations!!! We are all one bad month, week, or day
away from needing emergency food services. The
pantry strives to provide their customers with
nutritious meals like we would our own families.
Used Eyeglasses
There is a
basket also in the narthex for collecting
used eyeglasses. Kendra Manderfield Moore makes
sure that they are recycled to the Lions Club and Gift
of Sight groups. (Prescription eyeglasses only).
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Online Worship
Where to find the YouTube Live Stream
The worship service is live-streamed every Sunday at
10:00 a.m. on our Woodridge UMC YouTube Channel. All available worship service recordings are on
our channel too.
Wellness
Guidelines
WUMC considers the good health and well-being of not
only our members, but also our community, an act of Christian
stewardship. We continue to seek to avoid harm and do good as we
attend to the practices that help us grow in the love of God.
- We recommend each group consult with each other
on how to do good and avoid harm as a group in consideration
of each other's needs and desires.
- We will continue to practice COVID-19 best
practices throughout our building.
If you are feeling sick, please stay home and join
us via livestream on YouTube.
Sacrament of Communion 1st Sundays
We will be celebrating the
Sacrament of Communion in person on the first Sunday of each
month immediately following the livestream of our worship
service. We will need a few moments to set up our ZOOM link for
those who are not able to be with us in person. Please
remain seated following the postlude on the Sundays that we are
serving communion. Please remember that communion is
available every Sunday via ZOOM. Please contact the church
office or Pastor Danita for the ZOOM link.
Worship Attendance
If you watch the online service, please email the
church office at office@woodridgeumc.org and let us know that you joined us for
worship, so that we might record your attendance.
Prayer Requests for Worship
Our joys and concerns are
announced during worship service and printed and placed on the
table in the narthex as you come into the sanctuary. We
will continue to do this going forward. Therefore, all joys
and concerns must be emailed to Pastor Danita (PastorDanita@woodridgeumc.org) no
later than 6:00 p.m. on Saturday. If joys
and concerns are received after that, they will be sent on Monday
to the Prayer Ministry Team. Thank you for your flexibility
as we make updates to our worship services.
(There have been
requests that we include full names and/or more detailed
information for people on our list of Joys & Concerns.
Please remember our services are broadcast on YouTube and are
available to anyone who has internet access. Details are shared
with our Prayer Ministry Team on Monday mornings. You are
invited to join them in prayer and share in this information by
contacting the church office).
Offering
Options
There are different options for getting your
offering to the church.
- Go to the website & click on the Giving
tab at the top of the page or go straight there with this link.
- Text 630.449.7121 with the amount
- Drop off in the gold mail slot next to the east
door of the church.
- Mail your offering to the church.
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